DEMETRI BURKE (Atlanta, GA)
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Demetri Burke (he/him) is a young artist residing in Atlanta, GA with a BFA Degree in Studio Art from Georgia State University. His work has been shown nationally in galleries, museums, publications and online exhibitions. Highlights include his 2022 debut solo exhibition, titled And Then We Heard the Thunder.

CAMILO GODOY (New York, NY)
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Jeffrey Gibson (he/him) is an artist and educator born in Bogotá and based in New York. He has participated in residencies at Movement Research, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), coleção moraes-barbosa, Recess, New Dance Alliance, among others. Godoy's work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, CUE, OCDChinatown, PROXYCO Gallery, New York; Moody Center, Houston; UNSW Galleries, Sydney; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; among others. He has performed at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, New York; Toronto Biennial; and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.

KEARRA AMAYA GOPEE (New York, NY)
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Bio: Kearra Amaya Gopee (they/them) is an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Through video, sculpture, sound, and writing, they identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which they work: a world that they are intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. They have been developing an artist residency in Trinidad titled a small place, after Jamaica Kincaid's book of the same name, due to begin in 2023.

CONSTANTINA ZAVITSANOS (New York, NY)
MENTOR | VISUAL ART

Constantina Zavitsanos (they/them) works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound to elaborate what’s invaluable in the re/production of debt, dependency, and means beyond measure. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, and The Kitchen among other NY venues; and internationally in Scotland and Germany. They co-authored “Other Forms of Conviviality” in Women & Performance (Routledge, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017).

MIRANDA HAYMON (New York, NY)
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Miranda Haymon (she/they) is a Princess Grace Award winning writer, director, and curator currently developing several projects in theatre, opera, podcasts, and film. In the brand sphere, Miranda has directed projects with Gucci, Garage Magazine, Dunkin’ and Spectrum. Currently, Miranda is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre Company and as a writer is under commission by Jeremy O. Harris. Miranda is a graduate of Wesleyan University where they double majored in German Studies and Theater and were awarded the Rachel Henderson Theater Prize in Directing.

ZACKARY DRUCKER (Los Angeles, CA)
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Zackary Drucker (she/her) is an independent artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMa PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me, and was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent. The Lady and The Dale, her directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in early 2021.

ZEFYR LISOWSKI (Brooklyn, NY)
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Zefyr Lisowski (she/they) is a trans disabled poet, Pisces, and multidisciplinary artist. Her work uses ghost stories, sex poems, and griefwork to explore the complexity of trans and queer love under patriarchy/capitalism/ableism/transantagonism/white supremacy. The recipient of fellowships from Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, and more, Zefyr is a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and the author of the short Lizzie Borden murder book Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019); her essays, poems, and comics have appeared in The Offing, DIAGRAM, Catapult, the queer horror anthology It Came From the Closet (Feminist Press 2022), and elsewhere. Zefyr grew up in the Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina and has seen a ghost twice.

T. FLEISCHMANN (Mount Pocono, PA)
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T. Fleischmann (they/them) wrote the book-length essays Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through and Syzygy, Beauty and the pamphlet Gonorrhea, SESTA, Institutions. Among other places, their work can be found in Guernica Magazine, The Anarchist Review of Books, and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Fleischmann also collaborates on an ongoing body of visual work with the artist Benjy Russell and, when not writing, works for trans liberation and prison abolition from their home in rural Pennsylvania.

MILLER ROBINSON (Los Angeles, CA)
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Miller Robinson (they/them/it/itself) is a trans, 2Spirit artist of mixed Karuk, Yurok, and European descent residing on unceded Tongva Territory (Los Angeles). Tethered by sensibilities that prioritize collaboration, storytelling and the passage of non-linear timelines, themes of transfiguration, temporality, and care are routine to its process. They work in constant dialogue with the state of materials, informed by other-than-human kin, basketweavers and fix-the-earth People. Through performance and sculpture, it incorporates garments, poetry, tattooing, and installation to create detailed ecosystems that seek horizons in Queer and Trans potentialities. Miller studied at Otis College of Art and Design and has exhibited in Los Angeles at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian and Heritage Square Museum amongst others. They are a recipient of the 2022 Los Angeles Artadia Award.

JEFFREY GIBSON (New York, NY)
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Jeffrey Gibson (he/him) is a multimedia artistic practice synthesizes the cultural and artistic traditions of Cherokee and Choctaw heritage with Modernism and queer culture. A vibrant call for empowerment, his work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum; Denver Art Museum; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C.; among many others. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2019); a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2015); among other awards.

NORA SHARP (Chicago, IL)
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Nora Sharp (they/them) is a creator, performer, filmmaker, and writer who uses world-building narrative, interpersonal curiosity, and movement improvisation to draw attention to queer and trans people’s unfolding relationships with themselves and each other. Nora's work has been presented by On the Boards, Steppenwolf Theatre LookOut, Midwest RAD Fest, Shawl-Anderson, the Fly Honey Show, and Movement Research at the Judson Church, and supported by residencies at the Hambidge Center, Links Hall, and High Concept Labs. Nora also facilitated a community works-in-progress series in Chicago from 2014-2019 and has co-organized collective response efforts and community care systems within Chicago performance ecosystems. Nora’s currently working on The Real Dance, a DIY reality TV show, and The Dumpster Out Back, a solo show that channels imagined extraterrestrial understandings of queerness and transness.

WILL DAVIS (Chicago, IL)
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Will Davis (he/him) is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous work for the stage. Credits include: Road Show (Encores! Off-Center); India Pale Ale(MTC); Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground); Charm (MCC); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb and Playwrights Horizons—Lucille Lortel nomination); and Duat (Soho Rep). He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the NYTW 2050 Directing Fellowship, the Brooklyn Art Exchange’s Artist in Residence program, and is currently a Princeton Arts Fellow.

CATCHING ON THIEVES (Philadelphia, PA)
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Catching On Thieves (she/her) is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception, using her body as a question mark meant to disturb our assumptions about what we say we know about what we are. Titles of her recent works include: Piano Lessons, "Memory, Vein," Mulata She-male Gets it From All Sides, & "Not One & Simple, or, What Would James Baldwin Do?" Resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA, PAAFF, & Session 9 of the Raw Materials Academie hosted at the ICA. She is working on a sequel to the Bible called ZombiChrist, founding a church devoted to the worship & study of art, & will be attending the University of Pennsylvania MFA program in the fall of 2022 on full scholarship.

LILLY WACHOWSKI (Chicago, IL)
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Lilly Wachowski (she/her) is a trans woman and lifelong Chicago resident. She is a college dropout, and has worked as a Building Maintenance Technician’s Assistant, self-employed Carpenter and Writer/Producer/Director for Warner Bros, Netflix and Showtime among others. Her projects include The Matrix franchise (1999-2021), Bound(1996), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Cloud Atlas (2012), Sense8 (2015), V for Vendetta(2005), and more. She also paints; sometimes she paints ducks.

LU YIM (New York, NY)
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Lu Yim (they/them) is based between NYC and Portland, OR. They are a choreographer, teacher and poet. Yim’s work is influenced by their peers and by community care practices. They create in dialogue with mental, emotional, and physical well-being, which is articulated in both visible and invisible ways. Their choreography has been shown at SculptureCenter (NY), ICA London, Center for Performance Research (NY), TBA Festival (Portland, OR), and recently at No Gallery (IL) in collaboration with sculptor Catalina Ouyang. Yim co-organizes two artist-run, queer and BIPOC centered collectives: PE and pidzn club. They were an Artist-in-Residence at UCross Foundation (WY, 2019), and at Center for Performance Research (NY, 2020-2021). They have been published in interdisciplinary online publications: FormIV:Issue 12, curated by Isabel Mallet, and Ear Wave:Issue Six, curated by Jules Gimbrone.

JULIE TOLENTINO (Los Angeles, CA)
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Julie Tolentino (she/they), is a Filipino-Salvadoran queer interdisciplinary performance installation maker whose work draws from visual, archival, collaborative, and movement strategies. Her work has been presented in solo and group shows including The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Participant, Inc., Performance Space New York, Performa 2005 and 2013, the New Museum, and as a collaborator in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, and more. They have exhibited internationally in the UK, France, Germany, Philippines, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, among others. She was a 2021-22 scholar-in-residence at NYU Steinhardt, a 2021 MacDowell and UCROSS fellow, and has been a TDR Provocations editor since 2012. Tolentino is sponsored by Fractured Atlas, performs with Stosh Fila, and is represented by Commonwealth and Council.